Genre LensWhat is Vaporwave?
Nostalgic, ironic sample music. 1980s and 1990s muzak, smooth jazz, mall music and R&B slowed down, pitched lower, looped and drenched in reverb, so it sounds like a half-remembered advert.
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Identify my track- slowed, pitched-down vintage samples
- smooth jazz or muzak source material
- looping with abrupt chops
- dreamy reverb-drenched haze
Anchors rather than an exhaustive canon — if your track sits near these, this is probably the right label.
Usual tempo 60–100 BPM. Sitting outside that range does not disqualify a track; it just makes the tells matter more.
The nearest neighbours in Electronic, by tempo. If Vaporwave does not quite fit, one of these usually does.
- Trip Hop70–95 BPM
Slow, heavy, cinematic and moody. Dusty hip-hop breakbeats at a crawling tempo, dubby bass, minor-key strings or Rhodes and often a haunting, breathy vocal. Rainy-city music.
- IDM / Experimental80–170 BPM
"Intelligent Dance Music" — electronic music made for headphones rather than dancefloors. Irregular, intricately programmed drums, odd time feels, unusual synthesis, and structures that refuse to repeat predictably.
- Chill Out80–115 BPM
Soft, warm, low-energy electronic music designed to decompress to. Gentle beats, mellow chords, no aggression and no big drop. Ibiza sunset rather than Ibiza nightclub.
- Lo-Fi70–90 BPM
Deliberately imperfect and cosy. Tape hiss, vinyl crackle, muffled dusty drums, jazzy sampled chords and a sleepy swung groove. Made to sit in the background while you study or work.